Cops pull over Ambulance on it's way to the hospital.

[blazee]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/cops-sto...-with-emt.html

Cops Stop Ambulance On Way To Hospital And Fight With EMT

Cell phone video shows highway patrol grabbing paramedic by the throat

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, May 28, 2009

A scuffle between two highway patrol officers and an EMT was captured on video after the police pulled over an ambulance on route to the hospital with a patient on board.

The incident occurred on Highway 62 near Boley in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.

The video begins with the patient’s son, Mr Kenyada Davis, explaining “Highway Patrol have pulled my mom’s ambulance over because he’s mad we didn’t pull over.”

The troopers were responding to a call of their own and were evidently annoyed that the ambulance did not yield and give way to them on the road.

“He’s trying to arrest the EMT taking my mother to the hospital.” Davis explains.

The video then shows one of the troopers pointing at the paramedic and yelling “You are under arrest, you are under arrest”.

As the patient begins to scream inside the ambulance, the EMT, Mr Maurice White, Jr., tries to explain that he is trying to get to the hospital.

As he raises a hand in gesture, one of the troopers is seen to grab Mr White in an attempt to put him in an arm lock and cuff him. Mr White resists and a scuffle breaks out. Mr White attempts to get back into the ambulance, at which point the trooper grabs him by the throat.

“I’m going to the hospital.” Mr White again says, while Mr Davis pleads “he’s a doctor”.

The troopers then relent and return to their vehicle.

Watch the video below:

Mr White has given a statement in which he explains how he told the trooper he had a patient in the ambulance and that they were on their way to the hospital.

“He ignored my statement, became even more belligerent, and demanded my partner come to his patrol car so he could write him a ticket,” White says. “I calmly told the officer that we were transporting a patient and we could continue this at the hospital.”

White also writes that the trooper told him they could continue on to the hospital, but that he would be under arrest once they arrived. White was not arrested, but states that the troopers told him he should be prepared to turn himself in if a warrant was issued.

Paul Franks, the driver of the ambulance, has also provided a written statement.

According to reports, the troopers have claimed that the paramedic assaulted one of them before the camera started rolling.

The district attorney in Okfuskee County is expected to take a look at the video and may file charges against Maurice White as soon as this week.


The Oklahoma Highway Patrol have refused to comment on the video while it is still under review.


Thankfully the patient was treated at the hospital and was released later the same day.

[blazee]

This kind of shit pisses me off. I've got a lot of friends and family in law enforcement, and people like this make them all look bad.



" the troopers have claimed that the paramedic assaulted one of them before the camera started rolling."



I've seen that excuse used too many times where it was completely made up. The other times, based on the officer's behavior, there should have been no surprise that they got the shit knocked out of them. Rarely is the "he assaulted an officer" excuse legitimate.

[VR43000GT]

Stupid state troopers. I know there are good ones out there but none that I have ever encountered. Seems to me like most of them are on an 8 hour power trip from when the clock in to the point where they leave. If I were the EMT I would file a lawsuit agianst the state troopers. .02

[MagicRat]

For the sake of honest cops everywhere, we don't need 2 white cops throttling a black EMT.

I wonder if initially they thought the ambulance was stolen (racial profiling?)

[blazee]

Originally Posted by MagicRat

For the sake of honest cops everywhere, we don't need 2 white cops throttling a black EMT.

I wonder if initially they thought the ambulance was stolen (racial profiling?)

The ambulance was on it's way to the hospital when the cop came flying up on his ass so fast that he couldn't see him coming or have time to get out of the way. The EMT in the back saw the cop riding on their bumper and told the driver to pull over. As the cop went by he used his radio to yell at them. The driver threw both hands up in disbelief. A few minutes later the cop circled the block and got back behind them, and pulled them over. He claimed that the driver shot him a bird. When they tried to explain that no one shot him a bird, and that they would be happy to discuss it with him at the hospital after they transported the patient... that's when he said they were under arrest, then assaulted and attempted to handcuff EMT White. The other cop that arrived managed to convince him to let the EMT's go to the hospital.

The cop later revealed that he was about to pull his gun and use deadly force.



THIS RETARD WITH A BADGE WAS READY TO USE DEADLY FORCE AGAINST AN EMT ON DUTY WHO WAS RIDING WITH AN EMT THAT THE COP THOUGHT FLIPPED HIM OFF! AND HE WAS PREPARED TO DO IT IN FRONT OF ALL THOSE WITNESSES. JUST IMAGINE WHAT HE WOULD DO/HAS DONE TO AN AVERAGE JOE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IN A SITUATION WHERE THERE WERE NO WITNESSES.